Some of these things, such as Post-It Notes, languished as failures for years before being discovered to have other uses. Others were found by accident. For example customers discovered that Strivectin, a cream for stretch marks, minimised wrinkles. It is now marketed by the company as an anti-wrinkle product.
- Botox
- Brandy
- Bubble wrap
- Champagne
- Chewing gum
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Coca Cola
- Cornflakes
- Dry cleaning
- Dynamite
- Fireworks
- Ice cream cones
- Ink-jet printers
- LSD
- Matches
- Microwave ovens
- Pacemakera
- Pap smears
- Penicillin
- Popsicles
- Post-It notes
- Potato Chips/Crisps
- Potato Crisps
- Quinine
- Saccharin
- Safety glass
- Safety pins
- Scotchguard
- Silly putty
- Superglue
- Tea bags
- Teflon
- The Slinky
- Vaseline
- Velcro
- Viagra
- X-Rays
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